Checklist

  • Discuss in your group story ideas and illustrations/photographs.
  • Plan research and interviews as required (these may need to be done at school or as homework).
  • Prepare questions.
  • Conduct interviews and take notes (again, these may need to be done as homework).
  • Write a draft of your article/interview/letter to the editor etc.
  • Edit and correct draft writing.
  • Organise visual material - this includes gathering any images you may need eg clipart, photographs (remember COPYRIGHT!)
  • Plan layout and design for the newspaper.
  • Check each page of the newspaper.
  • Print and publish online.

Adapted from: http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/newspaper2/check_list.html